{"id":69792,"date":"2025-08-14T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:49:07","slug":"conor-mcgregor-removed-from-ufc-roster-just-days-after-paramount-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69792\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor removed from UFC roster just days after Paramount deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC two-division champion, Conor McGregor, has been removed from the official UFC roster, according to the logs recorded by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UFCRosterWatch\/status\/1956066313127727467\" rel=\"nofollow\">the UFC Roster Watch account on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cTo everyone messaging me asking, \u2018Is this true?\u2019 Yes, according to the official roster, our API indicates that he has been removed,\u201d the account posted in a follow-up tweet. \u201cWe are unaware of any negotiations between Conor and the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fighters are often added and removed for reasons not related to their status as contracted fighters and this does not automatically confirm that McGregor is no longer under contract with UFC; however, fans on social media speculated on the promotion\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/381748\/ufc-signs-broadcast-deal-with-paramount-cbs-ends-pay-per-view-model\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new billion-dollar streaming deal with Paramount and CBS<\/a> and how it might affect McGregor\u2019s status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Officials from UFC were not able to confirm McGregor\u2019s status as of this writing but UFC CEO, Dana White, is likely to field questions on the future of the former champ at the UFC 319 press conference later tonight in Chicago. In addition, the 37 year-old McGregor \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/10\/28\/24281817\/retired-conor-mcgregor-just-said-goodbye-ufc-fans-social-media-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who has not competed in over four years<\/a> \u2014 has yet to comment on today\u2019s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC two-division champion, Conor McGregor, has been removed from the official UFC roster, according to the logs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-69792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}